Obituaries: W. T. "Uncle Bill" Collins, 1962, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: March 15, 1962 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Funeral services for W. T. (Uncle Bill) Collins, who died at a Winnfield
hospital Thursday morning, March 15, after a long illness, will be held
Friday, March 16, at 2:30 p.m. at the Sardis Baptist Church.  The Rev. E. B.
Barton and the Rev. Clarence Weatherford will officiate.

Burial will be in the Brown Cemetery under direction of Edmonds Funeral Home. 
The remains will be at the family home, Five Forks Community, south of
Winnfield, near Atlanta.  He was a retired farmer and observed his 87th
birthday on October 11, 1961.

Surviving are nine children; four sons, Ed Collins, Atlanta, DeWitt and Luther
Collins, Five Forks Community, and Roy Collins, Saline Lake; five daughters,
Mrs. L. R. Dick, Smackover, Ark., Mrs. J. A. Young, Norphlet, Ark., Mrs.
Murrell McIlwain, Springhill, La., Mrs. P. B. Smith and Mrs. Howard Boyett,
Tannehill; 26 grandchildren, 41 great grandchildren; one brother, Robert
Collins, Gilbert, La., and a number of nieces and nephews.